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Three members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a Mississippi plane crash
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Posted on 10/20/2017 7:06:42 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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Today is the 40th anniversary of crash. Where were you '77?
To: Kid Shelleen
I was at my first Air Force assignment at Fairchild AFB, WA near Spokane; I was driving to work when I heard the news on the radio about the crash.
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:08:28 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
( Liberals, go find another country.)
To: Kid Shelleen
I was living in SW Pennsylvania and at work when I heard it on the radio. I had recently bought the “Street Survivors” album with the band members on fire on the front cover. The cover was changed after the crash.
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:09:52 AM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths.)
To: Kid Shelleen
I was making chips at Texas Instruments in Houston.
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:10:40 AM PDT
by
blam
To: 4yearlurker
"I was living in SW Pennsylvania and at work when I heard it on the radio. I had recently bought the Street Survivors album with the band members on fire on the front cover. The cover was changed after the crash." I have that original cover too.
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:11:35 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Kid Shelleen
Serving in the USAF, Charleston AFB SC...
To: Kid Shelleen
18 years old and completely shocked...
I grew up on southern rock...
Thankfully for you tube, watching most bands from that era are a click away...
Funny story...one of my grand kids had me listen to a great new song he found....
“Free bird”
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:13:22 AM PDT
by
Popman
(My sin was great, Your love was greater What could separate us now…)
To: ScottinVA
Thanks for your service! Shame on me for not saying, Thanks in advance to all the FReepers who were defending liberty.
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:13:57 AM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:14:25 AM PDT
by
Sybeck1
To: Kid Shelleen
I was a senior at the University of Iowa, looking forward to graduation in December.
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:15:27 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Popman
Darn you!
Now I have to surf YouTube and watch all the Southern Rock videos. /S
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:18:39 AM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
Molly Hatchet was better.
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:19:05 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Kid Shelleen
“Where were you ‘77?”
Getting ready to leave Ft. Riley PCS to TU.
5.56mm
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:20:31 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: Kid Shelleen
Hand guns are made for killin’
They ain’t no good for nothin’ else
And if you like to drink your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why don’t we dump ‘em people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some ol’ fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me
To: Kid Shelleen
I remember it well. I’m from Jax and several members of the band lived in my sisters neighborhood. I used to ride past their house all the time.
My youngest sister was buried in the same cemetery with those three until vandals tried to get into their crypt and their remains were moved to an undisclosed place. I remember my Mom calling me all upset because she was afraid my sister’s grave had been desecrated as it was near the band members site.
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:26:55 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Kid Shelleen
Today is the 40th anniversary of crash. Where were you '77? I was in the USAF, stationed at Coleman AAF in Sandhofen, Germany, providing weather support for Army aviation. This was devastating news to me as Lynyrd Skynyrd was/still is one of my favorite bands. I had just bought their album, "Street Survivors", and still have it, with the album cover being eerily prophetic:
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:27:36 AM PDT
by
rochester_veteran
(All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:28:02 AM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:29:02 AM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: Kid Shelleen
remember it as though it were yesterday...i was freshman in high school...just months earlier i had seen the mighty Led Zeppelin, opening night at Madison Square Garden...it was being talked about on the bus in the morning on the way to school- no one was exactly sure what happened, who died or how many died...
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:31:53 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: ScottinVA
I’d seen them a couple of nights before at the Hollywood Sportatorium in Broward Co.
Worst news ever at the time.
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posted on
10/20/2017 7:34:27 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(There are only two genders. The rest are mental disorders.)
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